If you are counting Gnome classic or 2 memory usage you also have to count gnome-sound-applet, metacity and probably more things which are a seperate process on gnome 2 or classic but integrated in shell/cinnamon. Just gnome-panel isn't really a fair comparison.

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AlbertP wrote:If you are counting Gnome classic or 2 memory usage you also have to count gnome-sound-applet, metacity and probably more things which are a seperate process on gnome 2 or classic but integrated in shell/cinnamon. Just gnome-panel isn't really a fair comparison.

You're right. And even worse, I run gnome classic with compiz and I'm not counting compiz, so it would probably be a lot more. I'm impressed by Cinnamon's low memory usage, though.

Being live images you can be sure this represents the system in its most pristine state, even though, under 64bits with an pretty new kernel (3.2), newer xorg, drivers, etc, there is no significant difference with my actual LM12 Cinnamon installation.

But there's something for sure: Cinnamon and Gnome3 are pointers hell (from the processor's perspective). The 64 bits versions almost doubles the memory usage of the 32 bits ones (take Nautilus as reference).

More up-time hours definitely makes the memory usage grow bigger. Is anyone working on this? Is there a way to restart Cinnamon, without restarting the PC, to reset Cinnamon back to lower memory usage?

Running Linux Mint on two Netbooks, one Dell laptop and one Quad-core Desktop.

That is a pretty nasty memory leak or group of. I noticed it before I would start my machine up around 600 MiB total memory usuage in no time it would be up above 1 Gb. Are these issues being addressed? There aren't really any places to check Cinnamon development and changelogs a really minimal from a techincal standpoint.